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SubjectRe: CONFIG_PROVE_RCU breaks proprietary modules (rcu_lock_map)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:37:47AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:40:59AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > I am comfortable with PROVE_RCU being incompatible with non-GPL modules.
> > > > After all, it is only a debugging option, not intended for production use.
> > >
> > > I agree completely. I just wanted to publish that fact because it seems
> > > to be little known and can be quite a puzzler.
> >
> > And I do very much appreciate your publicizing the solution! ;-)
> >
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> (Sorry I didn't bring this up until now.)
>
> I don't really have any sympathy for people who use that crud, but from
> my POV it's going to generate some grief. Fedora builds rawhide with a
> lot of debugging options enabled in order to try and hit issues early
> before kernels release.
>
> A few weeks ago, I noticed a report that PROVE_RCU was breaking some
> non-GPL junk. Digging a bit further, I noticed quite a number of more
> reports of this.
>
> Is there any chances you could reconsider this? Otherwise I'll probably
> disable the option in Fedora's debug kernels as well if I continue to
> see confused users.

Hello, Kyle,

My kneejerk reaction is that PROVE_RCU is a developer tool, so I am
OK with it not being set by default in Rawhide. Or have you seen good
value from (say) PROVE_LOCKING in Rawhide?

Thanx, Paul


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